Mangle.



W. LASOGKI.

MANGLE. ArPLIoATIoN FILED MAY4 1912.

Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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W. LASOCKI.

MANGLE. APPLIUATION FILED MAY .4., 1912.

1 ,075,982. Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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WLADYSLAW LASOCKI, OF WARSAW, RUSSIA, ASSIGNGR T0 MIKOLAJ KELSINSKI, OF WARSAN, RUSSIA.

MANGLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ct. 14,1913.

Application filed May 4, 1912. Serial No. 695,238.

To all 'whom/15 may concern Be it known that ll, WLADYsLAw Lasocnr, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and residing at Warsaw, Russia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mangles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to mangles, and a primary object is to provide an improved mangle comprising rolls which can be shifted far apart from one another without its being necessary to change the driving ear.

g The rolls are driven by means of worm wheels and worms, one of which worms is made of such a length that on shifting one of the rolls in the slots in the ends of the frame, the worm wheel rolls on the worm. The middle roll at one end is secured by a slide mounted on two fixed bolts and having a hook-like arm which engages over one journal of the middle roll in its working position and thus insures that this end of the roll cannot be raised except when desired.

One illustrative embodiment of my invention is represented by way of example in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved mangle, Fig. 2 a plan, the middle portions of the rolls having been removed, Fig. 3 a cross-section taken on the line A-A in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 an end elevatio-n showing the wall of the frame carrying the slide.

The two ends 1, 2 of the frame are connected together by the stay rod 3, and are covered by the table 4. rlfhe rolls 5, 6, 7 are mounted below the table 4. The roll 5 is fast on its shaft 5a, which is journaled in two bearings in the end plates 1, 2 of the frame, and carries on one end projecting beyond the frame the worm-wheel 5b. The roll 6 is fast on the shaft 8, whose journals can be displaced from recesses 37 in the frame and can be removed therefrom. rIhe roll 7 is fast on the shaft 10, which runs in sleeves 11, slidable to and fro in slots 13 in the frame, and the worm-wheel 14 is fast on the outer end of the shaft.

Against the sleeves 11 in which the shaft 10 of the roll 7 is journaled there rest the levers 15 mounted on the stay rod 3, and against these two levers there rests the bar 16 through whose central boss 17 a spindle 18 passes. This spindle is adapted to revolve and slide through the boss 17. This spindle also passes through the boss 19 of a second bar 20 fast to the plates 1, 2 of the frame and carries at its outer end a crankhandle 21. rlhe spindle 18 revolves in the boss 19 and is held from longitudinal movement by a collar abutting the boss 19. rEhe rear end of the spindle 18 is threaded and engages in a threaded yoke 21a, through which the ends of the rods 22 pass at two diametrically opposite points, the other ends of these rods being mounted in the enlarged portions 23 of the bar 16. The springs 24 at one end bear against the enlargements 23 and at the other against the yoke 21a.

n The side shaft 27 is journaled in the bearings 25 and 26 outside the end 2 of the frame and has a short worm 28 and a longer one 29. rlllhe worm 28 gears with the wormwheel 5b, and the worm 29 with the wormwheel 14. 0n the outside end of the shaft 27 is fixed the crank handle 30.

Outside the plate 1 of the frame, a locking member or slide 31 is mounted which is guided by means of slots 32, 33 and the bolts 34, 35 and has a hook-like arm 36 adapted to engage over the journal of the roll 6, which arm forms a longitudinal, closed slot 9 by reason of its cooperation with the end 1 of the machine when the slide 31 is in closed position, as shown in Fig. 4.

rIhe rolls 5, 6, 7 when not in use are covered by the table 4, se that the machine can be used as a kitchen-table or the like.

W hen the machine is used to mangle articles of clothing, the roll 7 is first pushed outwardly along the slots 13. Then the hinged portion 39 is tilted upward and the slide 31 pushed by means of its knob 31EL far enough toward the right for the roll 6 to be lifted out of the recesses 37, one at the top of each end plate of the frame, one of said recesses being adapted to receive the hinged portion 39, which normally rests therein, and the other being located adjacent the arm 36 of slide 31. rllhe article of clothing to be mangled is put around this roll which is then replaced in the mangle, the hinged portion 39 is lowered and the slide moved back to the left, when its arm 36 engages over the journal of the roll 6. The free end of the hinged portion 39 has mounted therein a longitudinally sliding locking bolt 39a which engages in the adjacent portion of the end 2 when the hinged member 39 is in lowered or closed position, a linger 391 projecting laterally from sai-d bolt for manipulation of the same. By means of the handle 2l the spindle 18, the yoke 2la and the pressed against the two levers l5, whereby the roll Z is pressed inwardly until it comes in contact with the roll 6 or with the article of clothing around it. The springs 24 are now pressed against the bar 16 and the roll 7 is thus rcsiliently pressed against the roll 6. rEhe handle 30' on the shaft 2-Z is now rotated and motion is thus transmitted by the two worms 28 and 29 to the Wormwheels 5b and let which respectively rotate the rolls 5 and 7, and the roll 6 carrying the article of clothing is` frictionally driven by the two rolls.

I.When it is desired to remo-ve the mangled article of clothing from themachine7 the crank handle 2l is turned in the opposite direction, whereby the springs 24: are released andthe roll 7 thus allowed free movement in its slots. When such movement occurs the worm-wheel la for this roll 7 rolls on the worm 29;

No disconnection of the drivinggear is consequently needed when operating my springs 24 the bar 16 is r mangle,Y and this is held to be an important advantage in the arrangement herein-before disclosed.

I claim In a mangle the combination of a frame having a horizontal slot in each end wall thereof,v a roll Xedly journaledf the end walls of the frame, a second roll displaceably journaled in the slots in the said end walls and a shaft provided with two worms, each roll carrying a worm gear meshing with. one of the worms inv aill positions of the rolls, an intermedia-te roll, adapted tobe frictionall'y driven by the former rolls, removably journal-ed in the frame, a slide mountedI on the side ofthe` frame having an arm, a hinged portion journaled on the other side of the frame, the hinged portionand the arm of the slide normallyret'ain-ing the intermediate rolli inthe frame.

In testimony', that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VVLADYSLAVV LASOCKL Witnesses p FRANCIS TREM-BIGKI, AUDNEJ KUCUREJ.

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